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Re: taking too long

Subject: Re: taking too long
From: "Diane Evans" <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:13:02 +0000

How do you handle "What's taking so long?"...
I have spent six months writing five hundred pages from scratch...

I would respond that an average tech writer can produce a page in about 2 hours (including research, rewriting, and formatting).

Each screen shot should take about 20 minutes (including call-outs).

So, this comes out to about 1200 hours of work. Assuming you work 7.5 hours a day (they do give you breaks, don't they?), this is a minumum of 30 weeks of work. If any screen shots or information changes during this period, tack on a little more time.

Do you have any other duties? As a tech writer, I have often been called in to service writing error messages or other documents. This all adds to the mix as well.

Perhaps your boss just needs education as to how a technical writer performs his or her work.

Diane Evans
Technical Writer

Washington State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/washing.html
Oregon State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/oregon.html


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